So here's the first of two posts based on purely wild conjecture. In a lengthening chain of trackbacks, Ryan Eby mentioned Christina's observation that Springlink has started displaying Google ads, presumably to supplement their subscription and pay-per-article income. Ryan goes on to wonder:
Will vendors continue with the subscription model …
Posted on Thu 01 February 2007 in Libraries • Tagged with Coding
The second of tonight's wild conjecture-based predictions.
One of the things that I was thinking about as I was shovelling the snow off our driveway on Monday (other than yes! finally some snow... one of these days Amber is going to go rolling around in it) was the position that …
Posted on Wed 03 January 2007 in misc • Tagged with Coding, Personal, PHP
2006 was a year full of change - wonderful, exhausting change. Here's a month-by-month summary of the highlights of 2006:
Posted on Wed 03 January 2007 in Libraries • Tagged with Coding, Libraries
A little over a week ago, I made the following prediction following the extremely under-the-radar press release on December 22nd that Vista Equity Partners was investing in SirsiDynix:
I'll go out on a limb and say that a merger or acquisition of SirsiDynix in 2007 is unlikely (33% confidence), but …
Sirsi Corporation merged with Dynix Corporation in June 2005. Now SirsiDynix has announced that Vista Equity Partners is investing in their company.
Let's take a look at Vista's investment philosophy:
*We invest in companies that uniquely leverage technology to deliver best-of-class products or services.*
I wonder if Vista confused "most …
I gave up on trying to get Ubuntu 6.10 (Edgy Eft) to run ejabberd today; it looks like there are some fundamental issues going on between the version of erlang and the version of ejabberd that get bundled together. That was a fairly serious setback to my "Evergreen on …
Posted on Fri 17 November 2006 in Libraries • Tagged with Coding
After the Future of the ILS Symposium wrapped up, Beth Jefferson walked some of us through the current state of the BiblioCommons mocked-up Web UI for public library catalogs; the project grew out of a youth literacy project designed to encourage kids to read through the same sort of social …
Posted on Fri 17 November 2006 in Libraries • Tagged with Coding
I headed down to Windsor early on Tuesday morning for the Future of the ILS Symposium hosted by the Leddy Library at the University of Windsor. It was a good thing I decided to take the 12 hours of bus + train approach to getting there, as Sudbury's airport was completely …
Posted on Tue 14 November 2006 in Databases • Tagged with Apache Derby, Coding
A while back I mentioned on the DSpace-devel mailing list that I was interested in adapting DSpace to use embedded Apache Derby as the default database, rather than PostgreSQL, as a means of lowering the installation and configuration barriers involved with setting up access to an external database. I haven't …
Posted on Tue 14 November 2006 in Libraries • Tagged with Coding, PHP
Just a short note to let y'all know that I received the thumbs-up from my fellow PEAR developers to add File_MARC as an official PEAR package.
What does this mean? Well, assuming you have PHP 5.1+ and PEAR installed, you can now download and install File_MARC and …